解释一下。。

shin_eason

postmodernism

utilitarianism

什么意思？

火柴_天堂

u·til·i·tar·i·an·ism   
n.
The belief that the value of a thing or an action is determined by its utility.
The ethical theory proposed by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill that all action should be directed toward achieving the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.
The quality of being utilitarian: housing of bleak utilitarianism.


utilitarianism

n : doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number

火柴_天堂

post·mod·ern   
adj.
Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: “It [a roadhouse]is so architecturally interesting... with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock” (Ruth Reichl).


postmodernism

n : genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism


后现代主义